The Lubbock County Sheriff's Office and SWAT played an active supportive role in the standoff

Several state and local law enforcement agencies were called to Big Lake Wednesday night after an officer was shot. A suspect was found barricaded in a house in the 1100 block of Main Street The standoff continued early Thursday morning.

In a demonstration of solidarity and community, Lubbock County sheriff’s deputies and SWAT traveled 180 miles south to Big Lake to assist authorities in their efforts to apprehend a man who allegedly shot a Reagan County deputy to death.

Marcus Wade Madison, 42, was arrested Thursday morning in Big Lake after a 17-hour standoff and charged with capital murder in the shooting death of Reagan County Sheriff’s Deputy Josh Mitchell.

Lubbock County sheriff’s Lt. Bryan Taylor told The Avalanche-Journal details of the events in Big Lake over Wednesday night and Thursday morning will be unclear until the officers who went are debriefed next week, but he knew the Sheriff’s Office personnel played an active part in the entry and arrest team.

“As far as I know, there was at least one team of four tactical officers who entered the residence and arrested Madison. Whenever we respond to something like that, we always assist the primary leading agency with whatever they need,” Taylor said.

Mitchell, 26, went to a house near 11th and Main streets in Big Lake around 6 p.m. Wednesday, responding to what Reagan County Sheriff Jeff Garner said was a complaint of a “personal nature.”

Mitchell was taken to Reagan Memorial Hospital in Big Lake, where he was pronounced dead.

Madison barricaded himself in the house as officers from the Reagan County Sheriff’s Office, Big Lake Police Department, Texas Highway Patrol, Midland Police Department and Texas Department of Public Safety arrived.

Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Mike Reed said they received the first request for assistance around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday and the Sheriff’s Office sent a command post unit and SWAT, playing an active supportive role for all the agencies involved in the standoff.

The command post vehicle served as a center for the personnel to regroup, plan strategies and get a little shelter from temperatures that reached up to 100 degrees, Reed said.

The Texas Rangers were conducting a search of the residence and are leading the capital murder investigation, Dean said.

Madison was taken to Shannon Medical Center in San Angelo with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his face, but personnel at the hospital would not comment on his condition, listing him as a “security patient.”

A benefit fund set up at Security State Bank under Mitchell’s name has already seen active response from members of the Big Lake community and out of town, Branch President Mark Noland told The Avalanche-Journal on Thursday afternoon.

Anyone wanting to make a donation can mail it in to P.O. Box 929, Big Lake, TX, 76932, or they can call the bank’s main office at (432) 333-9901, Noland said.